Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

It takes courage to become exceptional

The starting point is a question.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.